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Strong-Form Efficiency: When the dollar can be exchanged for a large amount of foreign currency, benefiting travelers but hurting exporters.

Semistrong-Form Efficiency: A form of pricing efficiency that profits the price of a security fully reflects all public information (including, but not limited to, historical price and trading patterns). Compare weak-f . . . View Full Definition

Pricing Efficiency: Also called external efficiency; a market characteristic that prices at all times fully reflect all available information that is relevant to the valuation of securities.

Riegle-Neal Interstate Banking And Branching Efficiency Act Of 1994: Law permitting interstate banking in the U.S.

Marketplace Price Efficiency: The degree to which the prices of assets reflect the available marketplace information. Marketplace price efficiency is sometimes estimated as the difficulty faced by active management of ea . . . View Full Definition

Sensitivity (Efficiency): The rating of a loudspeaker that indicates the level of a sound intensity that the speaker produces (in db) at a distance of one meter when it receives one watt of input power.The Efficiency . . . View Full Definition

Weak-Form Efficiency: A market with few buyers and many sellers and a declining trend in prices.

Assimilation Efficiency: The fraction of ingested food that is absorbed and used in metabolism

Marginal Efficiency Of Capital: The percentage yield earned on an additional unit of capital.

Digestion Efficiency: The fraction of living food that does not survive passage through a predator's gut